04 April 2012

Bersih shows how a voter can be 'cloned'...

In the run-up to the announcement of Bersih
3.0, steering committee member and political scientist Wong Chin Huat
revealed more instances of “cloned” voters, which he alleged were
phantom voters.

Using the 2011 fourth quarter electoral roll, Wong (left) explained four methods voters could be registered multiple times, so that they could cast votes several times.

“You can find that we have achieved so much in cloning technologies that
we would beat the Koreans and all others in the world,” the Monash
University lecturer sarcastically remarked.

The four methods are:

1.Voters having the same old Identity Card (IC) number and address, but different new IC numbers;

2. Voters having the same name, but slightly different new IC numbers;

3. Same name, with slightly different dates of birth, and new IC numbers; and

4. Postal voters with the same name but slightly different IC numbers.

Wong gave 10 examples of possible “cloned” voters and said there were at least 560 instances of “clones” of the first type.

However, he said, he did not know how many “clones” there were in the
other three categories, pointing out that the research he had done was
“just the tip of the iceberg”.

In one example of voters having the same old IC number and same address,
he showed the capture of a screenshot from the Election Commission’s
(EC) electoral roll verification website

It shows one Suodah Salleh and Teh Boon Keat having the same old IC number and the same address in Subang Jaya, Selangor (left).Wong also showed four instances of voters having the same name but
different IC numbers, including two persons named Mok Sow Ying. Their
ICs indicated that they have the same birth date, but their IC numbers
differed in two digits, while the other details were also different.

One Mok is registered to vote in Petaling Jaya Utara, Selangor, and the other is in Pandan, Selangor.

“Can someone tell me how much coincidence you need for two persons to be
born on the same day, with the same name, but the IC numbers are
different by 400?” Wong asked, referring to the third last digit of the
two ICs numbers that was different.

In the third type, he showed two screenshots of two persons named Liew
Siew Lee who had different years of birth, but the rest of the IC
numbers were the same, and the other details such as voting places were
different.

In the last method, Wong showed examples of two soldiers with the same name, Azhar bin Ahmad (left),
but with their military identity card numbers differing only in the
last digit, by one. They were assigned to different army camps – one in
Bandar Tun Razak, and the other in Wangsa Maju.“We need to know if this is not fraud, someone should step forward and show us the registration forms,” he said.

After Wong’s presentation, UCSI University lecturer and political
scientist Ong Kian Ming presented some of the preliminary findings of
his Malaysian Electoral Roll Analysis Project, which showed additional
discrepancies in postal voters.

Ong (left)
said there were more than 200,000 postal voters distributed in a
“selected number” of constituencies, some of which are considered
“marginal seats” where the election results could swing either way.He listed five problems affecting postal voters, with these examples:

1. Postal voters registered with regular ICs in addition to their military identity cards;

2. Spouses of police officers who are registered as postal voters, even though only spouses of military personnel are eligible;

3. Spouses of military and police voters of the same gender;

4. Military and police voters above the retirement age, including one Wan Rasidy Roni who is 112 years old; and

5. New military and police voters above the recruitment age.

“I’m not saying that all the flaws I’m showing are necessarily
phantom voters, but I think they are serious enough for the EC, as well
as the National Registration Department, to explain these very serious
discrepancies,” Ong said.

He also pointed out that the parliamentary select committee (PSC) on
Electoral Reform had looked for duplicate entries of new IC numbers, but
not old IC numbers and not among postal voters.

Bersih 2.0 steering committee co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan said
that the academicians were invited to speak to reveal the problems in
the electoral roll.

“We wanted to establish that one of the main reasons Bersih 3.0 is
happening is that while the PSC was busily working on its report, the
fraud was going on,” she said, expressing disappointment that the PSC
had not adequately addressed the issue of electoral fraud.- malaysiakini

PAS uncovers 'task force' to turn foreigners into voters...

PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar today claimed that he has evidence to
show that the government has set up a ‘task force’ to naturalise
foreigners so that they can vote in the upcoming general election.

Quoted in party organ Harakahdaily, Mahfuz (left)
named an aide to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, and senior officials
of the National Security Council, National Registration Department and
the Election Commission.

The names have been withheld by Malaysiakini pending confirmation.

“The BN government cannot face political pressure and are trying to deal
with it by bringing in foreigners to vote for BN,” he told a press
conference at the parliament lobby today.

He added that the evidence, which was not described by Harakahdaily, would warrant a royal commission of inquiry, and that the election cannot be held until the RCI’s report is ready.

When met later, Mahfuz refused to reveal how he got hold of this information nor substantiate his claim.

"This is information obtained from within," said Mahfuz, stressing that he cannot reveal his source.

However, Mahfuz said he would willing to reveal all should a RCI be formed to probe his claim.

Supporting his call, PAS Youth information chief Ridhuan Mohd Nor in a
statement said the allegations were “very serious” and concerned the
sovereignity of the country.

“This gives the impression that our country can at any time be sold to
foreign powers by government leaders who betray the rakyat’s trust,” he
said.

Last year, PAS activists had cornered bus loads of foreigners at a resort in Sungai Merab, who were allegedly part of a MyKad scam.

Police, however, claimed that the foreigners were there for an entrepreneurial course.- malaysiakini

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